Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartok: Dance Suite (London Philharmonic conducted by Georg Sold; London). Composed 30 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest, this six-part piece is full of earthy spirit. It is played expertly and enthusiastically...
Last week, still walking down Fleet Street at 73, abused and hated Hannen Swaffer stalked over to the Savoy for more concentrated praise than he had ever heard at one time. A Who's Who of British press and theater had gathered to toast his 50th year in Fleet Street. The Daily Express s Frank Owen, who years ago dubbed Swaffer "the Pope of Fleet Street," recalled the first sentence of Swaffer's verbal autobiography: "I was born in 1879, as was Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Camrose, Lady Astor, Joseph Stalin. What a vintage year!" Replied Hannen Swaffer...
Malenkov's star was rising again, this time in a clear sky. In January last year, Radio Moscow proclaimed: "True pupil of Lenin, comrade-in-arms of Stalin ... on your 50th birthday we wish you, dear Georgy Malenkov, many years of health." Georgy Malenkov had arrived...
Provost Paul H. Buck will receive an honorary Doctor of Law degree when the University of Puerto Rico celebrates its 50th anniversary, but the Provost will not be on hand to claim his award...
...Birthday Tractor. To celebrate its 50th birthday, Ford unwrapped a new tractor, its first model change since 1947. Five in. longer and 150 Ibs. heavier, the tractor has a new four-cylinder, overhead-valve engine (20% more powerful) and a redesigned hydraulic system, for plows and other attachments, which can lift loads of 1,000 Ibs. (up from 750 Ibs.). Price: $1,474 f.o.b. Highland Park, Mich...